Fox poll: Obama up 5, weaker on Libya

The new Fox News poll finds Barack Obama with a stable, 5-point national lead over Mitt Romney, drawing 48 percent of the vote to the Republican’s 43 percent.

That’s the exact same result that the previous Fox poll, conducted Sept. to Sept. 11, found in the race.

There’s more stability than change in the Sept. 24-26 numbers, overall, with a notable exception: a plurality of voters now say they disapprove of Obama’s handling of Libya. Forty-three percent of voters said they disapproved of Obama’s performance on Libya, while 39 percent said they approved. The previous poll had Obama’s approval on Libya at 48 percent positive, 34 percent negative.

Sixty-two percent still say it was right to oust Muammar Qadhafi from power.

That movement on Libya hasn’t changed the top lines in the race, which may tell you something about how much voters care about the issue, or how credible they think Romney is on Libya, or how much they view this as a political issue to begin with.